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...opened in the fall of 1993, HPRE--which was then Harvard Real Estate (HRE)--went out of its way to entice merchants to the arcade by creating the impression of considerable retail potential. HPRE wined and dined prospective merchants and threw a huge gala opening. Irma B. King Licorish, proprietor of the Caribbean-African Creations kiosk, said she feels Harvard "enticed us in here under false pretenses...
Larry Nickerson is the proprietor of the Gossville General Store, situated just off United States Highway 202. A native of Nova Scotia, Nickerson moved his wife and two children to Epsom from Gloucester seven years ago. His son will soon graduate high school and hopes to attend Bentley College in Waltham. The Frito-Lay man, accompanied by his two daughters, walks through the door and past the sign in the window listing the fees for various hunting permits. As the guardian of the potato chip aisle attends to his business, Nickerson writes up the transaction without the assistance...
...play, directed by Randall Arney, is disserved by a patchy cast. Susan Floyd flattens three potentially diverse roles (a seductive model, a brainy countess, a gushing "admirer") into one ditsy ingenue. As the wife of the bar's proprietor, Rondi Reed declaims, but does not convey, the pathos of a woman who bleakly sees through the egotism of much male solicitude. Hopper makes a sweet Picasso: you can believe he painted harlequins but not minotaurs. Most satisfying is Nelson as Einstein; a diminutive figure, he expresses something of an atom's compacted, ferocious potential energy...
...that his father "started going to gun shows and making little bombs" and in Kansas, showed him how to make and detonate explosives as well. Nichols' brother James and McVeigh's sister Jennifer are being pressed for new leads, as are McVeigh's Army buddy Mike Fortier; Ed Paulsen, proprietor of a gun store in Antigo, Wisconsin; and Paulsen's son David...
...Barnum became the proprietor of Scudder's American Museum in 1841, and began to reorganize, advertise and acquire new exhibits. Barnum, above all, was a master of manipulating public interest. His ingenuity in false advertising and scheming ploys hoarded people into his museums. For example, Barnum took great care to select the worst musicians to play "Free Music for the Millions," from the balcony of his American Museum. The horrendous music drove people to seek refuge in the museum for a mere 25 cents each. In his autobiography Barnum says, "I meant to make people talk about my Museum...